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The INKEY List vs DHC

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The INKEY List and DHC are distinct skincare brands offering targeted daily care for varied complexions. The British line, founded in 2018, specializes in moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, which significantly increases skin hydration and restores barrier function. Meanwhile, the Japanese house, established in 1980, is beloved for effective makeup removers and nourishing formulas that maintain a balanced complexion. While the former suits dry and dry sensitive skin best with specific treatments for diverse concerns, the latter accommodates dry, normal, combination, and oily skin types alike.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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DHC is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by ORIX Corporation since 2023.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and DHC products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs DHC products

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or DHC: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider variety of products on this page than DHC, featuring high or superior Lovi fit levels for dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and oily acne-prone skin.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and DHC?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of 16 products on its page fitting dry, dry sensitive, and oily acne-prone skin best, whereas DHC features only two cleansing oils.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or DHC?

The INKEY List features affordable serums and moisturizers on the products on this page, whereas DHC does not mention pricing details or affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or DHC?

Neither brand's page provides specific data comparing breakout frequency between The INKEY List and DHC. However, reviews for the products on this page for The INKEY List sometimes note purging and breakouts.

Which brand has been around longer, The INKEY List or DHC?

DHC has been around longer, having been founded in Japan in 1980, whereas The INKEY List was founded in the United Kingdom in 2018.

Do products from The INKEY List or DHC contain any fragrance?

Every product from The INKEY List and DHC listed on these pages contains no fragrance in its ingredients.

Which brand offers a wider variety of skincare products on this page?

The INKEY List offers a much wider variety of skincare products on the page, featuring 16 different items ranging from cleansers and toners to serums and moisturizers, whereas DHC only features 2 makeup removers.

Research behind their key ingredients

Behind this comparison

Lovi compares products by their fit scores, calculated from the full ingredient list with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.

  • Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Co-founder, Medical Director

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer

  • Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Co-founder, CEO and CTO

    PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex

  • Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Medical Board

    Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine

  • Aishani Shah, MD

    Aishani Shah, MD

    Medical Board

    Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD

  • Asya Zubkova, MS

    Asya Zubkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member

  • Hanna Kurets, MD

    Hanna Kurets, MD

    Medical Board, Medical Advisor

    Dermatology MD

  • Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Medical Board

    Dermatology and diagnostic consultant

  • Victoria Derkova, MS

    Victoria Derkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist

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